Inherent multiculturalism: An ancient Chinese practice becomes a part of the Indonesian everyday

• Main Author: CHAN, Margaret
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2018
• Subjects: games; Indonesia; jailangkung; archaeology of the everyday; Asian Studies; Multicultural Psychology
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2688; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/3945/viewcontent/Jailangkung_Ethography_APCSSM_20180523.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Several methods are used to trace cultural transfer between countries. The time-honoured methods are chronicles of early travellers and archaeology. We can also look to epigraphs and loan words. Present-day ethnic communities also suggest earlier settlements. Edward B. Tylor proposed the world distr...